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Llama 4 Scout pricing, context window and specs
Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens, and reads up to 327,680 tokens per request. By blended price it is number 6 of 14 from cheapest in Meta's current line-up.
- Input / 1M
- $0.10
- Output / 1M
- $0.30
- Cached / 1M
- –
- Context
- 327,680
- Max output
- 16,384
- Released
- 2025-04-05
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Pricing
Llama 4 Scout API pricing
| Price per 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.10 | $0.30 |
Output costs 3.0× the input price, so long replies drive the bill more than long prompts. No cached-input price is published, so repeated prompt prefixes are billed at the full input price.
Examples
What Llama 4 Scout costs in practice
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Requests/day | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot | 1,500 / 400 | 1,000 | $0.00027 | $8.21 |
| RAG app | 6,000 / 500 | 500 | $0.00075 | $11.41 |
| Coding agent | 40,000 / 2,000 | 200 | $0.0046 | $27.98 |
| Document summariser | 8,000 / 600 | 300 | $0.00098 | $8.94 |
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Context
Context window
Llama 4 Scout accepts up to 327,680 tokens per request, roughly 245,760 English words or 492 pages. That budget is shared between your prompt and the reply, and a single reply is capped at 16,384 tokens.
Filling the whole window with one prompt costs about $0.0328 at list price, so for repeated long-document work, retrieval (sending only the relevant parts) or prompt caching is usually much cheaper.
Features
Capabilities
- Image input
- Yes
- Tool / function calling
- Yes
- Reasoning mode
- No
- Prompt caching
- No
- Structured output
- Yes
- Open weights
- Yes
- Accepts
- text, image
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-08-31
As declared by the provider’s API. It shows a feature exists, not how well it works.
Meta
Where Llama 4 Scout sits in Meta’s line-up
Ranked by blended price (three parts input to one part output, $0.15 per 1M for Llama 4 Scout), it is number 6 of 14 from cheapest of Meta’s 14 priced models. See every Meta model and price
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark 1.3 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1,048,576 | 2026-09-02 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | $0.10 | $0.20 | 1,048,576 | 2026-09-02 |
| Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor | $0.10 | $0.20 | 1,048,576 | 2026-08-21 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.20 | 131,072 | 2026-08-09 |
| Muse Spark 1.2 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1,048,576 | 2026-08-05 |
| Muse Spark 1.1 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1,048,576 | 2026-07-16 |
| Llama Guard 4 12B | $0.18 | $0.18 | 163,840 | 2025-04-30 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.1875 | $0.6525 | 128,000 | 2025-04-05 |
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FAQ
Llama 4 Scout questions
How much does Llama 4 Scout cost?
Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens. A typical chatbot reply (1,500 tokens in, 400 out) costs about $0.00027. Use the LLM cost calculator for your own workload.
What is Llama 4 Scout's context window?
327,680 tokens, about 245,760 English words or 492 printed pages, shared between your prompt and the reply. A single reply can be up to 16,384 tokens.
Does Llama 4 Scout support prompt caching and batch requests?
No cached-input price is published for it. No batch price is published for it.
What are cheaper alternatives to Llama 4 Scout?
With the same essentials (image input and tool calling), the cheapest options are Qwen3.7 Flash (63% cheaper), Seed 1.6 Flash (13% cheaper). Cheaper doesn't mean equivalent, so test them on your own prompts.
Is Llama 4 Scout open source?
Yes, Llama 4 Scout has open weights, so you can run it yourself or choose between several hosting providers. The prices here are a typical hosted price.